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**Directed by: Yasuharu Hasebe**
**Starring: Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yumi Kanei**
**Rated: NR**
**Running Time: 1 h 29 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Fun, Style, Pacing, Meiko Kaji**
**WEAKNESSES: A Bit Superfluous**

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)

February 20, 2020

The final chapter in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series.

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**Directed by: William Friedkin**
**Starring: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstryn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller**
**Rated: R for Strong Language and Disturbing Images**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS:Themes, Acting, Story, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

The Exorcist (1973)

October 30, 2019

A teenage girl is possessed by a demon and two priests try to save her.

wm 1.jpg — The Wicker Man (1973)

**Directed By: Robin Hardy**
**Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 28m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Theme, Story, Protagonist**
**Weakness: None**

The Wicker Man (1973)

October 23, 2019

When a police officer from the mainland is dispatched to an island to investigate a girl’s disappearance he runs into trouble as no one on the island seems to even remember her existing.

dlk 1.jpg — Don’t Look Now (1973)

**Directed By: Nicolas Roeg**
**Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato**
**Rated: R**
**Run Time: 1h 50m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Direction, Acting**
**Weakness: Doesn’t Connect the Dots**

Don't Look Now (1973)

October 16, 2019

After suffering a family tragedy, a British couple living in Venice are confronted by a series of mysterious and perhaps paranormal events.

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**Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman**
**Starring: Brian Bedford, Monica Evans, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Roger Miller**
**Rated: G**
**Running Time: 1 h 23 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Some Fun Scenes, Likeable Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Pacing, Reuses Animation**

Robin Hood (1973)

May 6, 2019

A retelling of the story of Robin Hood and his struggle against the Sherriff of Nottingham starring humanoid animals.

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**Directed by: Wojciech Has**
**Starring: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Some Nudity and Sexual Situations, and Foreboding Images and Themes)**
**Running Time: 2 h 4 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Writing, Directing, Acting, Editing, Ingenuity**
**WEAKNESSES: May Be Difficult to Follow First Time Through**

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

October 4, 2018

A man named Jozef visits a sanatorium where his father is staying, only to find that within its walls, time doesn’t behave the way it should.

holy mountain 1.jpg — The Holy Mountain (1973)

**Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky**
**Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 54m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Production, Cinematic Technique, Theme**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Disturbing Imagery**

The Holy Mountain (1973)

September 25, 2018

Dissatisfied with an average life an thief, along with seven other seekers, consult an alchemist and pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain in order to gain enlightenment.

fantastic planet.jpg — Fantastic Planet (1973)

**Directed by: Rene Laloux**
**Starring: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Valmont**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 12m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Animation**
**WEAKNESSES: Obvious Typology**

Fantastic Planet (1973)

August 23, 2018

On a distant world, human like creatures, fed up with their animal like lives, rebel against their gigantic blue alien masters.

F is for Fake (1973)

Directed by: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Francois Reichenbach
Rated: PG (does include nudity)
Running Time: 1h 29m
TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5
STRENGTHS: Editing, Writing
WEAKNESSES: Subject

F for Fake (1973)

June 19, 2018

In this pseudo documentary of sorts, director and pontificator, Orson Welles guides the viewer through a series of stories meant as a meditation on the nature of truth, falsehood, and art, focusing on painters, forgers, biographers.

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